Δαύνιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Δαύνιον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων “ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δαύνιοι, καὶ Δαυνία τὸ θηλυκόν, καὶ Δαυνική κατὰ συγκοπὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυνιᾶται, καὶ Δαυνιατικός. ἔστι καὶ Δαύνιον τεῖχος πόλις Θρᾴκης. ὁ πολίτης Δαυνιοτειχίτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#33
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 221.17 · Billerbeck Δ33
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	36

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(1254)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δαύνιον	Daunium (city) · place
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Λατίνοι	Latins · people
Δαύνιοι	Daunians · people
Δαυνία	Daunia (feminine ethnicon) · people
Δαυνική	Daunike (ethnic adjective/form) · people
Δαυνῖται	Daunitai (ethnic form, shortened) · people
Δαυνιάται	Dauniatai (ethnic form) · people
Δαυνιατικός	Dauniatic (adjectival) · other
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Δαυνιοτειχίτης	Daunioteichites (citizen of Daunium) · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	[According to] Lycophron: "settled for/inhabited by the Latin Daunii." (i.e. the town is named from or associated with the Daunii people who settled it)
Morphological Composition	The ethnic/demonym is Δαύνιοι, the feminine Δαυνία, and Δαυνική. (forms of the name indicating how derivatives are formed)
Morphological Composition	"and Δαυνῖται" by contraction (syncope) from "Δαυνιᾶται." (explains the shorter form as a morphological contraction of the fuller ethnic name)

Links

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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.358

char LCS 54 (28.1%) · word LCS 9 (26.5%)

Stephanos

Δαύνιον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων “ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δαύνιοι, καὶ Δαυνία τὸ θηλυκόν, καὶ Δαυνική κατὰ συγκοπὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυνιᾶται, καὶ Δαυνιατικός. ἔστι καὶ Δαύνιον τεῖχος πόλις Θρᾴκης. ὁ πολίτης Δαυνιοτειχίτης.

Herodian

…, παρωξύνετο, καθότι τρίβραχυ. Θρόνιον, Σπήλιον. Ὄβριον τὸ ὄρος. Κούριον πόλις Κύπρου ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ (c. 113). ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Χώριον ἡ πόλις, ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑποκοριστικοῦ παροξύνεται. Δαύνιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 1254) «ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Εὔδοξος ἐν ἕκτῃ. Σούνιον δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ «ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον» (Od. γ 278). Δώριον πόλις Μεσσηνίας μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν …